Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-12-10

| is Hogg who has evidently eaten it and left
the mammoth Cobb, who comes from Indi-
ana We have in the senate a Plumb and a
decidedly big Berry. We have a Dunn in
the house, and we get very fair article of
Coke, from Texas, in the senate. Wisconsin
has its Price, and with it is the Grain, who
comes from Texas We have four men of
the same names as former presidents in our
Hayes, Taylor. Washington and Adams, and
the Masons will be delighted to know that in
the house OF representatives there is Lodge
and a Hall
II the farmers come here they will find a
Lane differing from that through which they
drive their cows to milking, and the lumber
men Will find Sawyer who is worth more
tens of thousands of dollars than hs weighs
pounds, and who is as good natured as he is
wealthy. Clothing men may shake hands
with TAYLOR, sportsmen can shoot with
Hunter, and haberiashers may make some
kind of a contract with Glover
There is neither Butcher nor Candlestickmnker
But you will find here the Fisher, the Weaver
and Bfker:
You may meet here Mason, Miller and Sher-
man.
Drink beer with a Brewer or Peel apples with
Herman.
We have Holman aud Boothman, and Greenman
and Tillman,
And our Wise man and Bland man are Cav be-
side Nerriman.
But names mean nothing
The new sergeant at arms Is the old one.
IL is ex-Congressman Leedom, of Ohio,
straight, slender, red mustached man, OF
medium height, and one of the most popular
servants of the house. Gen. Anson G. Nc
Cook continues to BE- sergeant at arms Of the
senate. He is tall, well made and squarely
built He has the heavy jaw of the Fighting
McCooks, and he is as blunt and brainy in
ais ways as was BrutuS, Casars friend. He
IS well to do, also, and has fortune in law
newspaper, with which he is connected in
New York. The sergeant at arms of the
house and senate get the same salary as men,
bers of congress, and the position is good
one
l took good hook at John J. Ingalls, as h
presided over the senate for the first time thi
session. lie il going TO make good presid
ng officer, and judge that he will not sp
pear very much on the floor of the house
This Office Increases his salary 5000 year
md, as / understand Ingalls, is not ricl
man, this maks some difference to him. He
viii entertain here this winter, and his wife,
who has many Of the qualities of Mrs. John
\. Logan, will be one OF the leading ladies of
The capital She will rank next in standing
TO the wife of the president, and she is both
beautiful and accomplished. She comes from
New York originally, but her father moved
to Kansas when she was a girl, and she mar
ried ingalls, when he was young lawyer
there. She has a very pretty daughter, who
viii be one of the dcbutantes this winter.
Mrs. Carlisle Will still remain at the Riggs
house, and this VIII make that hotel some
thing of q society center. She will give her
afternoon teas and receptions and will dis
pense her Kentucky hospitality as far as she
can a. an hotel. As it is she has to keep up
the whole OF the social end of her family, for
the speaker is not much of a society man,
md, though he attends dinners now ard
then, and goes to the regular Washington re-
ceptions, he would rather think figures than
drink champagne, and gets more fun out Of
statistics supporting his free trade ideas than
poker, whist or baccarat.
THOMAS ]. ToDD.